Just back from the Gartner IOM conference in Orlando. Here’s one titbit of interest. IT management is among the top technology priorities for CIOs in 2011. Cloud Computing and Virtualization (not surprisingly) are 1st and 2nd. IT management is...

Clearly, anything cloud is hot these days. A recent survey by CDW, the distributor, offers interesting insights into what enterprises think about Cloud computing and where it plays in their future plans. The survey which covered organizations in...

The 451 Group recently reviewed the eG Innovations’ eG Enterprise-on-Tap cloud hosted monitoring service. In this note, Dennis Callaghan, Senior Analyst, Enterprise Software at the 451 Group writes “We think it could be a compelling...

Citrix Synergy is next week in San Francisco. If you are going to be at the show,visit at booth #526. This year, we are also going to be at the Desktop Transformation pavilion for Citrix Ready partners at booth #807.
The theme at the Citrix Desktop...

Over the last week, Amazon’s cloud service had a serious outage that caused many popular web businesses to go offline for several hours and resulted in significant loss of business.
All of a sudden, many in the press (and users as well!) are...

If you are responsible for a virtual infrastructure, you’re probably already aware that metrics like CPU ready time, balloon memory, IOPS, etc. are important indicators of how the virtual infrastructure is performing. These metrics together...

According to Gartner, agility (not cost) is the most important driving factor motivating private cloud computing deployments. If you have used a public cloud service provider and experienced a cloud-based service first hand, this is not surprising...

Over the last month, we’ve seen two different cases where applications were moved to a virtualization platform and in both cases, a few days after the migration, the applications had problems. The move to virtualization was immediately blamed...

Historically, configuration monitoring has been looked at primarily for compliance – to see what software and hardware is in which servers and which locations and to make sure that standard procedures are being followed for software deployment...